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The "bus number" is the number of developers who'd need to get hit by a bus to seriously disrupt further development of the codebase because of the knowledge exclusive to their heads.

I.e. if a codebase has a bus number of 1, only one developer needs to get up close and personal with the front of a bus traveling at high velocity, and the project no longer functions. Increasing the bus number isn't as easy as just adding more people, either, it's more about documenting things and other forms of spreading knowledge, making code accessible enough so someone can jump in and take over, and removing other barriers to someone else stepping up and accepting responsibility.

So I have thought about a rough schedule for the next few "classic" review threads mixing up "newer" novels with older one while rotating through series (I'll go with the one book every two weeks schedule by the way):

As I said earlier I guess I will try to have a constant rotation between series (so TOS-TNG-DS9-VOY-ENT-two or three book exclusives/miniseries and then start with TOS again) to not get to one-sided, and throw in some older titles (like Warped) in-between the titles of the novel continuity area.

Isn't Warped, like, incredibly terrible? I'd stick to great ones; there are plenty of those.

Love the rest of that list

Yes, Warped is incredibly terrible (and that is an incredibly favorable view at it), but a) I want to see how it fairs, and b) we are already extremely top-heavy in the ranking, so why not give poor Michael A. Martin some competition for the bottom places?